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Sports Motivation Podcast

Get Ya Mind Right Monday: Be The Lion

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Sports, Business

4.9767 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Are you a lion in the jungle, or are you a lion in the zoo?


Do you wish things were different, or do you go out and make things the way you want them?

It's 2016. If you want success, you have to go out and get it. Nothing is guaranteed, there are no handouts. Get ya mind right!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Y'all was thinking about this the other day, I was with my kids, man. I was with my daughter and my son and I was watching the Discovery Channel.

0:07.0

It was something like little Netflix thing that we was watching. Something having to do with the lions, right?

0:12.0

And I was watching the lions and this particular lion, his mother lion, she had lost her cubs. She got separated from her cubs.

0:18.0

The cubs almost got eaten by a snake. It was some crazy junk that happened.

0:21.6

But it got me thinking, man, a lion in the jungle, nothing's guaranteed for this lion.

0:28.6

But the lion is the predator.

0:30.6

They're the king of the jungle.

0:31.6

But just because you're the king, just because you're at the top of the food chain doesn't

0:34.6

mean everything's automatically given to you. And so some of you athletes think just because you've achieved a certain level of result

0:42.3

that you can be lax like you can relax. But the top dogs, I mean, you look at Kobe, you look at

0:47.4

LeBron, you look at Tom Brady. You got to stay hungry, man. You have to be hungry because at any

0:52.9

given time, your Cubs can be to be hungry because at any given time,

0:54.1

your cubs could be snatched from you.

0:56.0

At any given time, and you have to walk around

0:58.1

with a sense of urgency like it's actually important.

1:01.2

So you gotta cultivate hunger and desire on a daily basis.

1:04.5

And the way you do that is by understanding

1:06.6

why it is that you're going after a goal.

1:08.2

See, a lion that's in a zoo.

1:11.3

See, they don't really have that urgency

1:13.4

because they just get their food hand fed to them.

1:16.1

They don't gotta go out there and hunt.

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